OpenVPN supports SSL/TLS security, ethernet bridging, TCP or UDP tunnel transport through proxies or NAT, support for dynamic IP addresses and DHCP, scalability to hundreds or thousands of users, and portability to most major OS platforms.
OpenVPN is a robust and highly flexible VPN daemon. If you're new to OpenVPN, you might want to skip ahead to the examples section where you will see how to construct simple VPNs on the command line without even needing a configuration file.Īlso note that there's more documentation and examples on the OpenVPN web site: Īnd if you would like to see a shorter version of this manual, see the openvpn usage message which can be obtained by running openvpn without any parameters. Because OpenVPN tries to be a universal VPN tool offering a great deal of flexibility, there are a lot of options on this manual page. OpenVPN is an open source VPN daemon by James Yonan.
Reference manual for OpenVPN 2.3 INTRODUCTION
